The Nuggets were apparently unwilling to match the Kings’ offer … but Iguodala was also reluctant to accept the offer, which led to Sacramento pulling the deal off the table.

This all means Denver is still very much alive in its hopes to re-sign the small forward who helped them to 57 wins and a franchise-best 38-3 home record, writes Wojnarowski:

After the Denver Nuggets expressed an unwillingness to match the Sacramento Kings’ $14 million-a-year proposal to free-agent forward Andre Iguodala, Iguodala’s reluctance to immediately accept the four-year, $56 million offer caused the Kings to withdraw the deal late Tuesday, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

With no major offers elsewhere, Iguodala could return to talks with the Nuggets on a five-year contract extension. Denver wants to keep Iguodala as part of its core, but has shown restraint in formulating potentially salary-cap crippling offers to re-sign him to a long-term deal, sources said.

When the Kings demanded an answer for their offer on Tuesday night, Iguodala’s desire to take more time to consider the deal signaled to Sacramento management that perhaps the free agent wasn’t eager to leave a Western Conference contender for the rebuilding project.

Nuggets general manager Tim Connelly and coach Brian Shaw presented Iguodala with a five-year contract offer and a pitch to convince him to re-sign at a meeting on Monday in Los Angeles. It is unclear if the Nuggets raised their initial offer on Tuesday night, but they clearly didn’t match the Kings’ surprisingly aggressive $14 million-per-season offer.

Iguodala was also one of the top targets of the Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Pelicans, Golden State Warriors and the incumbent Nuggets in the initial stages of free agency.

Kings GM Pete D’Alessandro recently left the Nuggets’ front office to become’ the Kings top executive and had been pushing hard to convince Iguodala to be a cornerstone for his franchise. Without Iguodala in the Kings plans, the organization could reconsider how it feels about matching the four-year, $44 million offer sheet that restricted free agent guard Tyreke Evans could soon sign with the New Orleans Pelicans.

hahaha! die hard fan??????????? what a crazy men.. be practical, to me I just want to enjoy watching every season.. why do I need to stay fan of a team that is already struggling evryseason??? Go to latest exciting team and enjoy watching, not getting head ache every loss of your favorate team!? You will be RIP wi/o enjoying your life… cammon”!

If he can’t give an answer for $14 mil a year then get lost we will get someone let tyreke go dude misses more layups in a season than guards miss in a career. Look out nba Kings of early 2000s gona make a comeback even if it is #8 spot in playoffs. And for those who say kings fanbase are the worse look what we just did we saved our team from moving NO other fanbase can say the same

As someone who watched every Nuggets game this year…Iggy is garbage. So overrated it’s not even funny. Playing offense with him is like 5-4 advantage for the other team. Sure, he is an athletic defender, but there aren’t many 2 guard threats in the league anymore who are hard to defend. He is too weak and small to guard the 3 spot also. He has 0 jump shooting capabilities, shoots like Shaq from the line, can’t score unless it’s fast break…he isn’t worth much money.

Janice, your big three isn’t. Bosh got schooled and exposed the entire series. Wade stepped up and Lebron was himself. SA lost that series in game six. Had nothing to do with Miami. SA lost, Miami did not win. Big difference!

I’m very happy that the Kings pulled their offer – for whatever reason. This means that Denver can hopefully re-sign him to a 5-year deal. We absolutely want him and I’m really hoping that he wants to stay with us. With him on our team we have a chance to continue making big noise and with B Shaw as our coach we’ll be able to go deep into the playoffs in a year or two.

By the way – as far as AI not rushing into any decisions – that’s the smart thing to do. They gave him, what – and hour or two to make a decision? That’s kind of ridiculous. It’s really not his fault that they’re so impatient. Considering the state of the Kings, I would think that they’d give quality players more time to consider their generous offers to play in a town that needs a TON of help. No disrespect to Kings fans for sure, but your FO could stand to have a little more patience.

I think houston maybe trying to get iggy to form yet another super team of dwight josh smith and iggy and harden. They will move asik and Lin let harden run the point iggy run the sg parson sf josh at pf and dwight at center. Should be crazy not houston fan but i bet it would be fun to watch huh??

I would not sign iguodala to that contract. He seems to disapear for long streaches during important games. Thats not a player you pay 14 mill a year to. He is a good overall player tho, just not quite worth that much coin.

With the Kings because they have a lot of young talent and all they need is a All-Star like Andre Iguodala!! Their chemistry is Great already
They are on the rise and they will make the playoffs this year and next year pick up more All-Stars and the Rookies will also develop and be All-Stars and the Heat will can’t keep all their Superstars for long and the Kings will win the Championship in under 5 years if Andre Iguodala signed with the GREAT Sacramento Kings!!!!

This is why Igoudala needs to join the Thunder. OKC has tons of cap space to sign him, if they want him. He has played lots with KD and Russ in summer international play. It would fit perfectly, chemistry-wise.

Iggy will never be a bigtime scorer, but he does look slightly under-utilized in Denver – The money the Kings offered him, he’s worth it for a team that’s got a role for him
but then again, the Kings don’t look very appealing right now

The Kings look very appealing right now!!
They have a lot of young talent and all they need is an All-Star like Andre Iguodala!!
With him, Ben McLemore can learn from him and the Kings would most likely make the playoffs next year if not this year!!!

Hey man, please stop to post the same reply to everyone who think that you’re Kings aren’t so shiny looking as you do. The fact is that, even if you seems to think it different, Iguodala is a glue-guy but not a go-to-guy. You’re team, in my opinion, need someone more clutch, or a best inside defende…maybe J-Smooth.But I wanna ask you, who are the players that makes SAcramento so good? Cousins and is not exisisting defensive attitude and is kindness? The undersized Thomas? The mysteriuos McLemore? Thorton or Salmons? come on, if iggy wants to win SAC is NOT the right place!

What a moron, the Kings were giving him a hell of a deal and with that roster; easily could have pushed for the playoffs. I bet his agent told him to bluff, obviously the Kings weren’t bluffing. He made a big mistake, bet hes back at home mad at himself for not taking such a tremendous offer.

@DInko, LOL so you’re sick of NBA your whole life, then why watching? ahh okay go ahead and watch a lot of Bobcats, Kings, Magic, Suns and other lowly teams game this season…NBA is composed of SUPERTEAMS since then,and they just made this League so exciting to watch, deny the fact? ohh it really hurts specially the one you are rooting is simply not 1 of those SUPER…

Um, Suns have been good except these few seasons. Back then they had Charles Barkley, and Kevin Johnson. Just because they lost Nash and Amar’e Stoudemire doesn’t mean they wont bounce back. They also had Shaq.

I would be so happy if the Kings got A.I
He is a great all-around player and has pretty good leadership skills
He will be a great role model for Ben McLemore so he can become an All-Star in this league and hopefully a Rookie of the Year
also the Kings would probably make the PLAYOFFS!!!

If he signs with the Kings, I will be so happy!!!
The Kings need a player like him that can play good defense shoot the ball and dunk so the momentum changes!! And if he signs with the Kings, he can be a great role model for Ben McLemore and the Kings need some leadership!!
If he signs, I think that means playoffs for the Sacramento Kings!!! (:

Yes it is a fair bit of money but for me he is worth every cent of that contract. He plays effective defence and is a team player who, wherever, he goes makes the team he plays on better. That cannot be said of many of the other players in this free agency!

Iggy barely edged 13.0 ppg and shot a horrendous 57.4% from the free-throw line (terrible numbers by ANY position). He’s an above average defender at best. I don’t really see the point here. With that offer, they were better off going for the likes of Josh Smith.

have you ever heard of the sixers? He could not be the leader of the sixers because he is not confident enough in his game. He is not confident in his shot and no matter how good of a dunker he is, he WILL NOT DRIVE. the only time he will dunk is if he is in the open court. He is short with the fans and the media. HE IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE A STAR. He will only be good if he is surrounded by 3 or 4 great players because then he will only have to score 11 or 12 points/game because thats all he can do. He will not help your community. Ok im from philly and i know what the world thinks about philly fans. How would you feel if you were disappointed year in and year out by players that you know have talent? We expect our teams play hard. As long as you play hard, you are ok…Iggy does not play hard. Just ask Denver, Kings, you just made the best decision by pulling out that offer. If you Kings fans don’t believe me, as the fans of the team he ends up with. I gi you a dolla if he proves me wrong.

Iggy does not play hard?? Above average perimeter defender at best? Not sure about those statements but I do believe that Iggy could not lead a team to a championship. He is a glue-guy. Doing things that do not really show up on stats every night. And every now and then he does blow up and has a big game. Add that guy to any team and that team will surely be better… but not necessarily champions.

Bad move for iguana. Kings have a horrible fanbase and yet they scream and moan about how they want their team to stay yet only less than 40% attend the game. HYPOCRITES!!! iguana this will be his last big contract before retirement so to you i say take ALL their money and rack up!!! good luck BRO!!!!

LOL@Smith & lilrocket2: Y’all just got pwned by those statistics that IM back bro provided. Those Kings fans were great back when they had a great team, but look at that decline in ticket sales as they get worse. If you REALLY want to see a true fan base, check out the numbers for the Trailblazers. Only 1-2 years out of the last 13 have they been in the bottom 10 in ticket sales.

You gotta love stats!!! Enough with the baseless arguing and claims of people with nothing to back it up. Seriously… if the Kings fan base was so awesome, no one would even think to sell the team. Who sales something that generates millions of dollars annually. You only sell a sports team if it’s starting to lose money. There will be exceptions to that rule but name a recent big market franchise that was sold while making millions off of loyal fans? And don’t say the Thunder because the Sonics were on the decline for a while before it was sold. There fans were loyal but from their couches at home.

I think every free agent needs sign with a contender. That way the system still evens out in the long run. Just give the small market terrible teams even more draft picks. Honestly these guys make too much money already so why chase more. Get a ring, Iggy!! Sign with the Warriors!!! Go to Cali and not be in LA. Win-Win. Or go to Miami because you are guaranteed a ring then. All the free agents really should just wait and see where Dwight signs then follow him haha.

The NBA has ALWAYS had what could be called super teams, beginning with Russell’s Celtics in the sixties and through the years; apparently the team that you like is not among the supers, otherwise you wouldn’t have a problem. Super-Fake!!!!!!!

Sorry there gene I just don’t start jumping ship ( ala LeBron ) and start cheering for a new team when they get an all star team , your obviously an educated heat fairweather heat fan who knows nothing about the game and proably switches his team everyother year who was your fav team pre 2010 boston or la , just think before you call someone super fake that’s laughable coming from a heat fan .